Cork buffer.



EATENTED OCT. 16,

G. E. WHELPLEY.

CORK BUFFER.

APPLIOATIQN FILED H1112. 190s.

NJi-lineooeo lwantsvo NITED sTATEs PA'TENITQOFHFICEQI if CHARLES E. WHELPLEY,, or ivioNTPELIEi-a'vERinoNr; ASSIGNOR oF onE- HALF'TQ ARTHUR W. CLARK, or MONTPELIER, VERMONT-.-

CORK But-Fan;

' To all whom it may concern} 'No. 833,653. I

- -Be it known that I, CHARLES E. WHELP- LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montpelier, in the county of Washington and State of Vermont, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Cork Buttrs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the comprising a disk invention, such as willenable others skilled in theart "to which it appertains'to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to, 'theletters of reference marked-thereon, which form a part I 'of this specification. r5

on a far deeper gloss "than felt buffers ,com-

monly in use, it being the purpose of the present invention to put on the finishing work upon the surface of stone which has been,

previously treated by a metallic disk wheel My invention consists, further, in various details of construction and arrangements of parts, which will be hereihaften fully described and then specifically defined inthe ap ended claim. v

illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective VleW of my imv proved cork.bufi'er.

Fig. 2 is a, sectional view on line 2 2 of Fig. -1. Fig. 3 is a top plan view,- and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective View showing a portion of a cork segment-ring.

Specification of Letters Patent;

- Application filed February'2,1906. SerialNo. 299,200

the drawings by letter, A designates a circular outlined disk, made, and rovided' with ears ,which are aperture and adapted to be fastened to mechanders E upon opposite sides thereof and .disk resting upon said shoulder in the manivitlrsufficient frictional force to, securely. hold them in place.

by "the provision of a bulfendisk, as shown the use. of the concentric strips of 'corkfor .vide, the buffing-surface of which will-not glaze or become hard, as is the case with the usual felt buffing-surfaces. i WVhatIclaiin is A cork hull er comprising a disk having secontractegl and adapted to engagesaid slot s,

forth. In testimony whereof I hereunto .affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

l-JARLES 1 WHELPLEY' Witnesses: CLARENCE H. BURa,

BUnToNv E. BAILEY.

and shoulders upon the opposite sides of said strips upon which said disk rests, asset,

Patented Oct. 16,1906.

Reference now being had to the details of ammy, ofr'netal;

ismfor rotating the disk". Said disk is pro-Q vi'ded with concentric seriesof cur'jve'd slots D and a'centr'al opening F. E E desi late curved segments of cork, each having s ouladapted to be inserted in said concentriccurved slots with the under surface ofthe ner clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, The-portions of said cork strips which fit said' slots" are designed to engage the same From the foregoing it will be noted that and described, 'a mechanism is aifordedbyr giving a deeper gloss than can be acconrplished by the use of felt and affording a; da

ries 'of curved concentric slots therein, curved cork strips having their upperfedges 

